Name:   MartiniMan - Subject:   I survived the weekend Date:   7/14/2014 12:59:43 PM

If you read my earlier post I hosted my son's friends (nine of them) and some girlfriends (three of them) at our lake house this weekend.  All I can say is wow!  First of all they brought a keg because they calculated it was cheaper.  Maybe true but they didn't think about the boating.......at least that's what I thought.  So they show up to the boat with a cooler filled with jugs filled with beer covered by ice.  Necessity truly was the mother of invention here.

So we skied, wakeboarded and then floated.  Went back for lunch.  Then it was tube time and I killed them and they loved every minute of it, including the one that got a nice cut near his eye from an errant elbow.  Then back to the house for beer butt chicken and then beer pong (don't ask me how it works.....I refused to watch).  Then a night cruise with Matt playing his guitar.  Then more beer pong and the floating of the keg.....I went to bed and turned on the white noise up high.

Sunday up and off to mass.........get back from mass and one of the guys gets out of the car and hurls.  Then they took a nap and we headed back out to float and shoot breeze.  A couple of observations:

- Great young people are fun to be around and they know how to have a good time

- What they call a bathing suit today was only sold in Fredericks of Hollywood or Victoria's Secret and not for use outside of the home when I was that age

- A lake house is a great place to create memories and all of them were already talking about next year's weekend.....

Oh, and the girls did sleep upstairs and guys down but I think it was more self defense on their part as much as my rules.  As I told them, any one of the men by themselves has an IQ of 140.  Put two of them together and it drops to 100.  Three or more its well below 80 and any more than that it is barely measurable.  I am sure I was not like that when I was 23 but I am not going to ask my Mom or any of my friend's Moms........although I do clearly recall one of my friends Moms saying to me on my 21st birthday, "I am amazed all of you safely made it to 21".  At first I thought she was kidding but then when I saw the look on her face........oh my.....